While the gay marriage brings out the worst in the Far Right, it doesn't do the Extreme Left any favors either. I'm hoping the Carrie Prejean story goes away. Not only is it amazing to me that a beauty pageant contestant is getting such flack for answering a question the exact same way that Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates for both parties did (albeit in a much less eloquent manner) but, also, it's THE MISS USA PAGEANT! With everything going on across the globe, Miss California doesn't deserve this much press.

Of course, the press will point out the new allegations that have arisen but let's be honest, if she doesn't answer that question the way she did, nobody gives a damn. MSNBC certainly doesn't spend the whole day covering the story. One MSNBC anchor responded to the "news" of Prejean keeping her crown with, "Can I vomit right now?" as if taking up time in a serious news program to discuss the fate of Miss California isn't already intellectual upchuck.

Even worse, Keith Olbermann deemed the story the #1 news story of the day. That's right, Miss California keeping her crown was somehow the biggest thing that happened in the news today. Granted, this is Olbermann who believes that Fox News and its personalities are routinely the biggest news stories of the day, so I guess I shouldn't have expected much better from him.

I tried to watch Olbermann's standard holier-than-thou rant but I couldn't get through it. Not only is he agonizingly pompous but after two minutes of listening to him I couldn't help but think, "Wait, who cares about Miss California keeping her crown?"

MSNBC should be embarrassed by the way they've handled this non-story. They covered it with such vigor and venom simply because this model didn't agree with their beliefs. I really don't know how Olbermann and the others can really preach open-mindedness when they respond to dissent in this manner.